Growing older is a fact of life. If you get to live a long time, you're gonna be old. Quality of life is what's important. I hope Finland can come up with a model for old-peoples homes that can be used worldwide. Ideally, it should be a place that people want to go . . . not a place they have to go. Your friends should already be there, in the hot tub, under the starry skies, waiting for you. Your favorite tunes should be playing. Your most difficult decision should be whether to go skiing or ice fishing. Or maybe do a few laps in the pool and then take a sauna in that hot, hot room . . . with water being thrown on the stones . . . looking out the large windows to a perfectly still grove of birch trees. There should be a zen garden, thai chi and yoga classes, a library, high-speed internet, a decent wine cellar, and all manner of activities that keep people engaged, physically and mentally. How does that sound? They could charge a fortune for immigrants like me to live there, and make it free to the natives.
The Finns are smart and clever and they have some great ideas. Tourism is the natural way to extract money from the people that have it and not have to deal with them on any long-term basis. It also casts the spotlight on Finland in a most favorable light. Sanna Valkonen, a lecturer at the University of Lapland, has some novel ideas for her unique neck of the woods. Like appealing to young people especially, by following up on the success of Lordi, and helping to develop the town of Rovaniemi into a mecca for snowboarders. I say, you go girl!
To the max.
Though CH might have some comments on the sweat lodge version - which I've never experienced (but would be happy to).
Take culturally repressed role players out of their uniforms and they become quite human ;-)
What is it with you Yanks and willies? You can't be me, I'm taken
I've seen the YouTube uploads of "Riot On!" So you can't fool me.
LOL
Or is the legal foo-foo still foo-foo'ing? I suppose it is.
ditto per massage. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
'Feeling good' after a sauna covers a whole range of beneficial biochemical changes.
I presume massage has similar effects? You can't be me, I'm taken
in fact, when working in a spa, clients that came from the sauna were 'half-done' from a relaxation pov.
my comment came from massaging a bigwig, seeing a lot of kowtowing and self importance at a party later, then remembering the client in his underpants! people take off their pretensions with their clothes.
what's amazing (and on topic) is the amount of identity wound up in being 'dressed', and how radical a shift when people are au naturel, a phenomenon also readily observable in saunas and hot springs/tubs.
clothes make the man, indeed, lol!
saunas are a brilliant invention, i lervs 'em ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Speaking of hot rooms, has anybody here had the opportunity to try Bikram yoga? It's yoga in a hot room and for older folks like me it's great because the added heat somehow makes the whole body more flexible.
what tallies is how much more flexible living in the tropics makes your body, due to it's never having to harden itself to cold.
not surprising yoga was invented in india.
i prefer a calmer style of hatha, taking as much time in each asana as the situation requires, really meditation in different positions..
bikram is the other pole from tibetan yogis wrapping themselves in wet robes in subzero temperature, then using pranayama breathing, like breath of fire, to crack and melt the ice from within.
i did some ashtanga for a while, and it too accents using heat from very strenuous jumping from one asana to another combined with deep breathing. very sweaty!
whichever yoga suits ya best, it's great to have so much choice. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Public baths and steams baths acquired Gay associations here since they were commonly used as a Gay meeting and pick-up spot. This later trended into the elaborate and well appointed, so I am informed, for the semi-public, for a paying clientele, facilities of today.
This reinforces the association.
Better off developing goods and services people need in and during their daily lives: telephones, computers, advanced cybernetic controlled weapons systems (50' killer robots!,) heroin, & etc. :-)
